5th Equality Directive

Under the management of the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency, BUG and other NGOs have made an appeal to the Federal German Government with regard to the unification of protection against discrimination in the European Union. You can find the appeal here.

BUG observes new legal and political initiatives of the EU anti-discrimination protection.

BUG has analysed which additions would have to be made to the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG), if the Ffith Equal Treatment Directive wer to be implemented. There are only a few. Furthermore, BUG has depicted this in a table.

At the beginning of 2015, the draft was discussed again in the European Council. The current negotiating text can be found here. The Council has also created a progress report that you can access here.